In my first grade of school, at the cafeteria, I remember the instances when other students looked at me weirdly and frowned. As everyone lined up to go past the cashier, paying for their lunches, I would press a code...
Stereotype
Vi Nguyen
How to Fight Racial Prejudice in Your Daily Asian American Life
We don’t need to rely on stats to know that racial harassment against Asian Americans is on the rise. We can feel it. From the comments about a US Olympian’s heritage to the non-Asian man shouting “go back to...
To the people who “don’t care” about Asian representation issue
At the beginning of the New Year, Logan Paul released a video of himself venturing into the restricted Aokigahara Forest in Japan. I woke up feeling enraged, and I wasn’t alone. My friend Lexi, who doesn’t usually keep...
Give Women More Space in Thailand’s Buddhism
[agg-ad id=”14519″ align=”left”][agg-ad id=”15486″ align=”center”] I sat down and asked Dr. Ariya Svetamra of the Women’s Studies Centre, Chiang Mai University, whether...
Pim Kemasingki
Do you take my work, patience, and kindness for granted because I’m Asian?
There are names for the struggles Asian Americans share: the perpetual foreigner syndrome, the model minority myth, and for Asian American women, oriental fetishism and white sexual imperialism. As a Thai woman in the...
Guest Writer
Neither local Asian, nor average Australian: I’m an Asian Australian
[agg-ad id=”14519″ align=”left”][agg-ad id=”15486″ align=”center”] Just a few months ago I was sitting in an Uber with an older White man as a driver. The drive was good...
Mon Liew
The Fashion Shift In Asia We Haven’t Noticed …Yet.
[agg-ad id=”14519″ align=”left”] Something quite brilliant is happening in the fashion world, particularly in Asia. Earlier this year, Chanel launched a campaign featuring both Pharrell Williams...
Shakila Rajendra
4 insecure thoughts I have during sex thanks to internalized sexism
(Originally published on Everyday Feminism on August 23, 2016) In my fantasies, the thoughts running through my head during sex are all about how sexy my partner is and how much I want them and how unbelievably amazing...
Neat little boxes
Before I decided to embark on the adventures of life as an expat in the Middle East, I thought that being Asian in a predominantly white community was the most annoying reality of my life as an adoptee. However, I soon...
Tara Footner
Is it your responsibility to educate a person you’re dating on race and racism?
[agg-ad id=”14519″ align=”none”] (Originally published on Everyday Feminism on October 19, 2016) It’s problematic when people expect someone with any marginalized identit(ies) to to educate theme...